[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Doesn't a mentally challenged person deserve Moksha in this lifetime ?

[V Subrahmanian]

Jada Bharata was not a mentally challenged person. His wisdom found
expression in that famous dialogue with King Rahugana that is described in
the Bhagavatam. His instruction to the King is a highest Vedantic discourse.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:00 AM Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
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> I'll just make one point in response: the so-called mentally challenged can
> also obtain moksha, depending on their prior karma. The famous story of
> Jada Bharata from Srimad Bhagavatam illustrates. Swami Vivekananda's
> retelling of this story is at:
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> https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_4/lectures_and_discourses/the_story_of_jada_bharata.htm
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> Jada Bharata was a sage who became attached to a deer, and so was reborn as
> a deer, and then after that reborn as a son in a rich Brahmin family. "And
> in that life also, he remembered all his past, and even in his childhood
> was determined no more to get entangled in the good and evil of life. The
> child, as it grew up, was strong and healthy, but would not speak a word,
> and lived as one inert and insane, for fear of getting mixed up with
> worldly affairs. His thoughts were always on the Infinite, and he lived
> only to wear out his past Prârabdha Karma..."
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> Hari Om,
> Akilesh
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